Re: Which is the most stable of Debian releases?
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 04:18:28PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> Hi,
> It's well-known that Debian releases are rock-solid. But I've been
> wondering if there's been a comparison between various releases as
> regards stability. It would be nice if there's some commentary from
> long-time Debian users (say those who experienced it pre-Woody), and
> another way is by judging by the number security fixes to a particular
> release. Any stats out there?
I've used Debian, as a user and then my own box, since Woody, but I've
always run unstable, so I don't know what had less fixes. I would just
like to say that the number of fixes isn't an indication of
stability--the releases have had sometimes drasticly different
lifecycles and each release has significantly more users, and so more
critical reports come in.
> By the way is there a distro out there considered as stable as
> Debian's Stable. This is not a question of which is a better distro
> (too many variables involved there), but just a question of, "which
> distro breaks less?"
The other distro's I've tried either I couldn't use the package
management easily, or they broke on install--so I'm not objective ;)
--
Christopher Nelson -- chris@cavein.org
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